With Dimes Upon Your Eyes
Aug. 2nd, 2011 08:36 pmThree Things (The Lazy Tuesday Edition)
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luzula made a podfic of my Yuletide story, "Lefty Sings the Blues." You should definitely check it out, she did an awesome job. It's really neat hearing my words in someone else's voice. :)
2. Today I made empanadas for the first time ever. Christmas-time tamales and homemade tortillas aside, we don't really do a lot of Mexican/New Mexican/Guatemalan food around here - I just don't like it that much, even though my dad makes great enchiladas and my mom's posole and green chile stew are infamous. But we had some pastry dough to use up and no particular desire to make pies, so empanadas it was. Filled with ground beef, potato, and onions, and an improvised variation of my general spice mix (smoked paprika, chile powder, salt, pepper, optional cumin, garlic). And they turned out pretty good! Better than I was expecting, honestly. Which is good, since we have enough left over to last through a short war.
3. I'm currently in the kind of mood where I have to force myself to stop listening to the same Decemberists songs over and over on repeat, because they are lovely songs but I know if I don't rein myself in I will be up at 4 in the morning foolishly enraptured by the perfect tragedy of You'll Not Feel the Drowning and The Engine Driver and I Was Born For the Stage and Oh Valencia and Yankee Bayonet, which I realized for the first time this week is a Zack Fair song and now I can't get it out of my head. It's not an unpleasant mood, this wallowing in poetic misery that isn't mine, but it isn't conducive to getting anything done.
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luzula made a podfic of my Yuletide story, "Lefty Sings the Blues." You should definitely check it out, she did an awesome job. It's really neat hearing my words in someone else's voice. :)2. Today I made empanadas for the first time ever. Christmas-time tamales and homemade tortillas aside, we don't really do a lot of Mexican/New Mexican/Guatemalan food around here - I just don't like it that much, even though my dad makes great enchiladas and my mom's posole and green chile stew are infamous. But we had some pastry dough to use up and no particular desire to make pies, so empanadas it was. Filled with ground beef, potato, and onions, and an improvised variation of my general spice mix (smoked paprika, chile powder, salt, pepper, optional cumin, garlic). And they turned out pretty good! Better than I was expecting, honestly. Which is good, since we have enough left over to last through a short war.
3. I'm currently in the kind of mood where I have to force myself to stop listening to the same Decemberists songs over and over on repeat, because they are lovely songs but I know if I don't rein myself in I will be up at 4 in the morning foolishly enraptured by the perfect tragedy of You'll Not Feel the Drowning and The Engine Driver and I Was Born For the Stage and Oh Valencia and Yankee Bayonet, which I realized for the first time this week is a Zack Fair song and now I can't get it out of my head. It's not an unpleasant mood, this wallowing in poetic misery that isn't mine, but it isn't conducive to getting anything done.